Hyphen Connect ยท 22 hours ago
Tech Lead (Crypto/ AI)
San Francisco, CA
Full-time
Onsite
Senior Level
5+ years expHyphen Connect is seeking a Tech Lead for one of their Crypto VC clients, who will be a product-oriented leader in early-stage environments. The role involves owning the technical roadmap, driving engineering excellence, and collaborating with cross-functional teams to deliver innovative consumer experiences and build a world-class engineering team.
Staffing & Recruiting
Responsibilities
Own the technical roadmap for the decentralized accelerator platform, covering smart contracts, consumer products, infrastructure, growth systems, and marketplace rails
Drive engineering excellence in performance, reliability, security, scalability, and rapid iteration with tight user feedback loops
Collaborate closely with product, CEO, and cross-functional teams (including legal and ecosystem) on design, development, and roadmap execution
Lead design reviews and development of economic/token-related smart contracts, ensuring secure, audited, gas-efficient architectures integrated with user flows and marketplace logic
Ship fast, intuitive consumer experiences across core features: Futures (build-in-public), Bounties (user validation), Markets (token launch), App Store, Integration Hub, and dashboards
Build, scale, and mentor a world-class engineering team, fostering a culture of ownership, speed, craftsmanship, and establishing processes, standards, and recruiting systems
Partner with the Founder on long-term strategy, platform evolution, major architectural decisions, and defining AI/ crypto infrastructure
Qualification
Required
Experienced startup engineering and product leader with a history of building and scaling products from ground up
5+ years of work experience in scalable tech companies and crypto-startups
Strong technical breadth across full-stack engineering, distributed systems, and consumer-facing products for large user bases with familiarity in Golang development
Solid understanding of smart contracts, on-chain execution, crypto ecosystems, and security best practices
Comfortable in ambiguous, high-velocity environments; hands-on yet able to build and empower high-caliber teams
Excellent communicator, translating between product, engineering, and design
Fluent in English and Chinese (Mandarin)
Company
Hyphen Connect
Hyphen Connect: The Nexus of Web3 Talents As your premier Web3 talent acquisition partner, Hyphen Connect is dedicated to driving innovation by connecting passionate talent with forward-thinking enterprises.
2-10 employees
Funding
Current Stage
Early StageCompany data provided by crunchbase